Milestones of Cultural Innovation

[titan]

China helps supply fentanyl, a lethal poison found in the U.S. illegal drug trade. People are dying from it.

New York State responds -

"Naloxone and fentanyl test strips orders sent to a valid New York State address.
Order Supplies
No Cost & Hassle-Free"
https://oasas.ny.gov/harm-reduction...rm23&utm_source=OMTradeDesk&utm_medium=Banner

Worth noting, fentanyl tainted drugs include marijuana, partially decriminalized in New York.

So New York takes this action without federal help.

The milestone, most Americans living today were born after the drug war began. Until FDA style safety standards are applied to these drugs, contamination from fentanyl or xylazine will be a risk. FDA style regulations are unlikely at federal level as long as the federal drug war continues. This leaves it to the States. Tenth amendment.

 

[sear]

Thanks t #1.
Paradoxically change has become a constant. I'll try to add to your list soon.

 

[sear]

t #1
This topic is tougher than I thought.
How about this?

In the 1950's the rhetorical all-inclusive locus of humanity was "here on Earth".
No more.

Now we have a durable presence in orbit * (technically not on the planet) in the ISS.
The result, the "here on Earth" expression must now be expanded to "in the solar-system" or some other expanded definition.

NASA has plans to return humans to Earth's moon, reportedly preparatory to a durable occupied presence on Mars.

Is that a milestone?

* Low Earth Orbit: L.E.O.

 

[sear]

The evangelical vote seems to factor prominently in the Iowa Republican caucus, benefiting a messianic figure like Trump.
This parallels the idea that it's wrong to vote for any Democrat, because Democrats defend women's right of choice, invoking the ostensibly Christian view against abortion.

And what does the Holy Bible have to say about abortion in general, and partial-birth abortion / post-birth abortion specifically?

According to the old testament, god created Adam & Eve, and populated the planet with incest.

After a while the omniscient, omnipotent Jehovah decided he did not like the population he created, and drowned all but the passengers of one boat. Therefore one of two things is true.

- Either the scriptural account of Noah's arc is wrong, factually false, or

- god, Jehovah not merely supports abortion, but has practiced it on planetary scale.

If not that, what?

 

[sear]

In the 1960's police departments had "vice squad" enforcement, for addressing "crime" such as prostitution, and gambling.

It's a new millennium.
And in this newest modern age (so far), turns out prostitution is still a vice, BUT !! gambling is only a vice if government doesn't get a $piece of the $action (a $percentage of the $profit).

The following graphic is taken from https://nylottery.ny.gov/



The Buffalo Sabres is an NHL ice hockey team from Northwestern New York.

The $economic-ethics of pro-sports is already clouded by such issues as:
if such professional sport teams (except the Green Bay Packers) are privately owned, why must the tax payers pay $billions to build the stadiums these teams derive their revenue in?

"It's another example of mismanagement in corporate America where we're now expected as tax payers to bail them out. They're capitalists when they make money. But they're socialists when they lose money."
Actor Tim Robins, commenting on a California commercial electric power crisis

New York State triple-dipping here? Only in this case, it's the State that's running the gambling operation, and the wealthy sports team owners that settle for a "piece of the action"?

 

[sear]

FDA panel recommends easing restrictions on several peptides, including BPC-157​

The panel went against the conclusions of the agency’s career scientists, who said there wasn’t enough evidence to support the move.
July 23, 2026, 6:40 PM GMT-5 / By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Sara G. Miller

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee narrowly voted in favor of loosening restrictions on peptides over strong objections from agency career scientists.
Throughout the daylong meeting, FDA scientists detailed a lack of evidence supporting the use of the peptides along with safety concerns.
Over and over again, the FDA came back to a major sticking point: It’s unclear, chemically, what these peptides even are. In other words, there was no universally accepted chemical formula for each peptide, making it extremely difficult for the FDA to evaluate its use.
Peptides have surged in popularity in recent years, touted by the wellness industry as well as high-profile figures including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and podcaster Joe Rogan. The compounds are promoted for a variety of uses, from anti-aging benefits to better sleep and faster healing.
However, the peptides have largely existed in a “gray market” — they are not FDA-approved drugs but are often bought online from vendors who label them “for research use only,” a legal workaround to sell compounds they claim aren’t meant for humans. Allowing the peptides to be compounded, Kennedy has argued, would move people away from the gray market and toward safer products.
On Thursday, the FDA’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee voted in favor of four peptides: BPC-157, KPV, TB-500 and MOTS-c. On Friday, the committee will look at emideltide, epitalon and semax.
The committee’s votes do not make the peptides FDA-approved drugs. Instead, they are recommending that the peptides be added to a list of drugs that compounding pharmacies are allowed to make. The final decision will come from the FDA in the form of a rule proposal.
Eight panel members were appointed under Kennedy, including six who run clinics that offer peptides. One committee member, Tennessee state Sen. Bobby Harshbarger, is the son of Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., who last year wrote to Kennedy, asking that compounders be allowed to make certain peptides.
But at several points throughout the day, the FDA scientists said that there was simply no data for them to assess for certain peptides.

FDA panel recommends easing restrictions on several peptides, including BPC-157

The panel went against the conclusions of the agency’s career scientists, who said there wasn’t enough evidence to support the move.

www.nbcnews.com

The "safe & effective" standard routinely applied has apparently been abandoned in this case.

The discontinuity between RFKj's obstructionist approach to approved vaccines, and promotion of these mystery compounds which lack even chemical structure definitions seems contradictory.

“Follow the money.” Mark Felt aka deep throat, secretly providing Woodward/ Bernstein guidance in their investigation of the Watergate burglary